Thank You

​Solidarity forever! Working locally and with our national affiliates (AFT and NEA) and state affiliate (NYSUT), the vote on having a Constitutional Convention was soundly defeated with 83% of New Yorkers voting "NO" to the proposition. 83%!! Feel free to save your lawn signs and magnets for the next vote in 2037.
 
In challenging times, we are stronger when we remain united. All of our affiliates worked together to defeat this proposition. The financial support from the AFT and NEA helped produce ads. NYSUT held phone banks, mailed information to our homes, provided us with the lawn signs and magnets that adorned thousands of cars, lawns, and ramps to highways. It was an outstanding effort. Given the editorial and articles that appeared in Newsday, my satisfaction with the results is enormous!
 
Locally, BMUST has many people to thank for helping us achieve this successful result:

• If you put a magnet on your car, thank you!
• If you put up a lawn sign, thank you!
• If you participated in the phone banks at NYSUT, coordinated by Heather Castellano (Mepham) with an assist from Julie Roslee (Calhoun), thank you!
• If you read and shared my Local Do's articles or any of the information disseminated from BMUST and NYSUT about the Con-Con, thank you!
• If you contributed to VOTE COPE to help finance our political action campaign, thank you!
• If you're a retiree who spent time defending our pensions and our union at a phone bank, thank you!
• If you changed the countdown numbers on our Con-Con posters in each building, thank you!

Thank you all very much! I'm proud of our organizing efforts with the campaign and the wonderful results. As we will certainly continue to face challenges, I sincerely hope we can maintain the same level of solidarity demonstrated with the Con-Con campaign so that our successes down the road will be plentiful.
 
In Solidarity and with much appreciation,
Mark